All the Way to the Top

Via Billmon: Lawrence Wilkerson has told NPR that Cheney ordered the relaxation of anti-torture standards (and that, in fact, Cheney was effectively running his own foreign policy shop). Wilkerson says he investigated at Powell's order, and established an audit trail leading all the way to Cheney.

Surprised? No. Shocked? Well...to the extent that I still have the capacity to be shocked at all anymore, yes.